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Peter 3:3-7. Knowing this first: That in the last days there shall come deceitful
scoffers, walking after their own lusts, saying: Where is his promise or his
coming? For since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as
they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they are wilfully ignorant
of: That the heavens were before, and the earth out of water and through water,
consisting by the word of God: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed
with water, perished. But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the
same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment
and perdition of the ungodly men.